[Dxspider-support] You are killing all Webclusters!

[Michael Carper, Ph.D.]

Sorry... "the source of huh?"

On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM Tobias Wellnitz via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> my apologies for the slightly provocative email subject, but in the name
> of all Web Cluster operators I would like to express our strong concerns
> and disagreement about the recently rolled out "source" verification of DX
> Spots! This setting does more harm than good. Literally all spots submitted
> through web clusters are been dropped since the roleout of
> $DXProt::sendverify = 2.
> Why? Because web clusters manage their users and their accounts in the web
> stack and not in dxspider.
>
> Just to give you an idea about the magnitude: Only my web cluster (
> dxheat.com) has >30.000 registered users and has at any time 800 - 1500
> connected users. I know that Dxfun and Dxwatch are serving even larger user
> bases!
>
> Look at Andrea's table of dropped spots within a day:
>
> +-------+----------+
> | SPOTS | NODE     |
> +-------+----------+
> |   502 | EA4RCH-5 |
> |   411 | VE7CC-1  |
> |   273 | DH1TW-2  |
> |   208 | AE5E     |
> |   138 | PY1NB-4  |
> |   104 | EA6VQ-2  |
> |   103 | DO5SSB-2 |
> [...]
>
> Here is the mapping:
>
> EA4RCH-5 -> dxfun.com
> DH1TW-2 -> dxheat.com
> PY1NB-4 -> dxwatch.com
> EA6VQ-2 -> dxmaps.com
> DO5SSB-2 -> qrzcq.com/dxtron
>
> As you can imagine, we have put a lot of effort into building and
> operating these web clusters. The total number of affected users, which
> participate in the dx cluster network through our web services is larger
> than the overall users connected via telnet!
>
> We therefore kindly ask you to reconsider and undo the recent changes!
>
> Let jointly keep on discussing other possibilities on how to further
> harden together our DX Cluster network!
>
> Thanks & 73,
> Tobias, DH1TW
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